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Sethe’s youngest child and the only one still with her at the time of Beloved’s return is Denver. Denver was not born into slavery, Sethe escaped while pregnant with her. As a result, Denver was born free but she still faced the consequences of slavery, specifically the need to claim something as solely hers. Denver’s relationship with Beloved shares some similarities to her mother's but is different since Denver realizes that Beloved is bad and breaks free from her desire. Like the other characters, she wants Beloved to belong to her and she states that Beloved “[is] mine, Beloved She’s mine” (Pg.230). While never physically present, Beloved was a fixture in the once and was known to Denver as her sister.
For years, Beloved lived in the house as a sort of ghost but when Paul D arrived, her ghost disappeared from 124 only to later appear as a human. Since Beloved has appeared as physical being, Denver wants to possess her newly returned sister and she does not wish to share her with anyone, including her mother. Denver becomes close to Beloved upon her return and stays with her to help her. This close bond would be tied in with the hope that Denver has always held that her father, Halle, would come to 124 to be with her and Sethe.
Beloved’s reappearance makes Denver believe that she has come to wait for Halle together, since if her deceased sister came back, then so can the father that she never met. Denver’s possession is not only linked to her sister but to the house and her mother. Denver is stuck in that house and fears the outside world as a result of her mother. Throughout the novel, Denver becomes more and more independent and the readers see her grow as a character and she gradually breaks free from her mother’s possession of her being. Though Denver never experienced slavery firsthand, she has experienced loss, which compels Denver to claim Beloved as hers and this claim also opens her eyes.
This desire to possess Beloved shows the readers how she will even cast aside her mother to claim Beloved as her own. Her need to possess Beloved has a different effect on her than it does on her mother. While Sethe seems to simply waste away caring for Beloved, Denver begins to grow and realize that her desire to possess Beloved is dangerous and so is her sister. Denver decides to gather the community to help her mother and to put an end to Beloved’s possession over her mother and by extension herself. Denver is also possessed by herself and her mother. She fears the outside world as a result of what happened to her mother. Her venture out into the town and her attempts to find permanent work and possibly attend college mark the beginning of her fight for independence and self-possession.
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